"No Brainer" AAPL Breaks Below $500; Lowest In 3 Months

For the first time since mid-October, "no brainer" investment AAPL has dropped below the maginot line of $500. We are sure Carl Icahn will be buying another $500 million worth of shares today... AAPL is now down over 13% from its December highs.

Think about it. The market was up 30% last year. If you sell on or before December 31, you have to pay those taxes by April 15th 2014. If you wait one more trading day to January 2, you don't have to pay taxes on those gains for another 16 months. It really is that simple. Selling begets even more selling...

There are no new products because there is no more design genius at AAPL. Ives has gotten fatter than a Wellington cow, and the other baby-boomer product development guys are just eying the clock to their retirement.

Let's give credit to where it is due -- the Android operating system. The Mac flourished because Microsoft was too inept at building a stable, secure, and user friendly operating system for computers. The early 'smart phones' and tablets had even worse user interfaces. IOS is still good, but no longer is better than Android. Thus when you walk into a store today to buy a phone, IOS is no longer an advantage and the choice is now on the phone hardware and price.

Thats incredible - and unsustainable - but Android is a lot more adaptable to market trends. Its able to be customized, trailored, repackaged and sold to fit almost any kind of demographic from emerging market value phones like the Moto G, to Gold plated HTC One's for you wall street high rollers.

It doesn't rely on an outdated ecosystem whose interrface is clunky, prices inflated and just has the smell of being stagnant. Google updates the OS twice a year with reference devices that show forward thought with features and capabilities that are truly innovative instead of window dressing like iOS. Couple that with the ability of Google to enhance users' experiences with its vast amount of information whose integration seems are quickly disappearing and you can see why a lot of iDevices are now being passed over in favor of the more powerful and capable Android devices. Hell even my father, the most technologically inept being on the planet is able to use his LG G2 effectively - which is something Apple has typically dominated.

Now if you excuse me, my Note 3 just beeped and told me that I have a meeting to attend :P

Apple's share price looks like some kind of wall that stops people from moving east to west.

West of the wall I'll wait for you
West of the wall our dreams can all come true
Though we're apart a little while
My heart will wait until we both can smile
That wall built of our sorrow
We know must have an end
Till then dream of tomorrow
When we meet again

Jody hardly knew when Grandfather started to talk. "I shouldn't stay here, feeling the way I do." He examined his strong old hands. "I feel as though the crossing wasn't worth doing." His eyes moved up the side-hill and stopped on a motionless hawk perched on a dead limb. "I tell those old stories, but they're not what I want to tell. I only know how I want people to feel when I tell them. "It wasn't Indians that were important, nor adventures, nor even getting out here. It was a whole bunch of people made into one big crawling beast. And I was the head. It was Westering and Westering. Every man wanted something for himself, but the big beast that was all of them wanted only Westering. I was the leader, but if I hadn't been there, someone else would have been the head. The thing had to have a head. "Under the little bushes the shadows were black at white noonday. When we saw the mountains at last, we cried-all of us. But it wasn't getting here that mattered, it was movement and Westering. “We carried life out here and set it down the way those ants carry eggs. And I was the leader. The Westering was as big as God, and the slow steps that made the movement piled up and piled up until the continent was crossed." "When we came down to the sea, and it was done." He stopped and wiped his eyes until the rims were red. "That's what I should be telling instead of stories." When Jody spoke, Grandfather started and looked down at him. "Maybe I could lead the people someday," Jody said. The old man smiled. "There's no place to go. There's the ocean to stop you. There's a line of old men along the shore hating the ocean because it stopped them."

"In boats I might, sir." "No place to go, Jody. Every place is taken. But that's not the worst-no, not the worst. Westering has died out of the people. Westering isn't a hunger any more. It's all done. Your father is right. It is finished."